I have to say that when this guy De Laer regained his composure, the personable aristocratic image was really very capable of bluffing, and El had to bow down in this regard. After coming out of the tent, the three men found a secluded place, got some barbecue, and began to drink and chat.

As the saying goes, if you don't fight, you don't know each other, and the friendship between men is actually very wonderful, and enemies who don't like each other may appreciate each other after a fight. Sometimes it is sympathy for the same disease, and when they get together to drink wine and spit out bitter water, they may become sympathetic.

De Laere belongs to the former, although he is the one who was beaten. To be honest, El didn't have a good impression of this guy before, but compared to other southern nobles, the Kemal family can indeed be called a kind of person, and he is qualified to say that he is a man. As for Ximako, it belongs to the latter, and he and De Laere have a common language as a sister.

The exile teams that have continuously "swept up" villages and towns along the way have already solved the problem of food rations, and even if they do not receive assistance from the lord of Churkin, they can survive this winter. With her current power, it was easy to find a few good bottles of wine, but in order to keep a low profile, the three of them hid outside the camp.

"Camille Heath is not a good place. De Laere took a sip of wine, and with an elegant and arrogant smile on his face, he whispered, "I don't know if you have read the historical documents of the founding period of the Oakland Kingdom...... Miss Lanstadt should know, it's a cursed place. ”

She was an imposter who could know a fart in her heart, but she still showed an interesting expression on her face and asked, "What's the problem there? Is it more terrible than the mess your family has made in Dimiente?"

"You can eat indiscriminately, you can't talk nonsense!What is the mess that my family has made?" As soon as he said this, De Lael immediately became emotional, brandishing a wine bottle and saying angrily: "At least half of the brown soil hills have become the ghost they are now, and at least half of them are the fruits left by the North Wind Sword Saint back then. Just because we have a bit of a problem with our family's bloodline, do you throw any sewage on our heads?"

"Don't shout here, who doesn't know about the in your family back then. Ximako snorted coldly and said disdainfully: "Let's talk about the Camille Wasteland, I heard that the family of the boar lord Churkin has been stationed there for generations in the Thunder Fortress, and the Thunder Fortress is the most powerful military town in the Oakland Kingdom, there should be high-ranking clergy there." ”

"Is the most powerful military town, even more powerful than Istalen?" asked El, in disbelief. In his impression, the White Lion Family, which has a golden rank powerhouse and was once regarded as a thorn in the side of the Oakland royal family, and is eager to get rid of it quickly, can already be called a pivotal force in this country.

In his imagination, the Wild Boar Family, which was also a descendant of the Four Knights of the Northern Realm, should not be much different from the White Lion's military strength, but De Lael now said that the Thunder Fortress was the most powerful military town, didn't this mean that the actual military strength of the Wild Boar Family was far greater than that of Eastalen?

"Looks like you don't know anything...... But also, except that we, the descendants of the ancient family, must learn the smelly and long historical knowledge since childhood, what is the point of ordinary people understanding these things. De Laere smiled self-deprecatingly, took a sip of wine and continued:

"The Timberwolves, the White Lion, the Black Bear, and the Wild Boar, the four knights who pioneered the North, are essentially the emerging four warlord factions. The Timberwolves' Wolf Fortress defends the northern ice fields, the White Lion guards the Yunlu Mountains in Istalon, the Black Bear defends the nomads on the steppes in Lotterdam in the east, and the Wild Boar defends the Thunder Fortress in the southwest to defend against the Falcon Empire. Although the fiefdoms of the other three lords are also bitter cold lands, they are basically self-reliant. Only Thunder Fortress is a pure gold-sucking monster that consumes one-fifth of the entire kingdom's tax revenue every year!"

"How could the royal family be so kind as to settle the military spending problem for the local lords?" El asked incredulously, his impression that the royal family of Oakland had been fighting for the death since the palace coup ten years ago, and had never wavered. He gave up the entire northern land, people, and resources to the Cursed Sect, turning a blind eye to the spread of the plague, and pinning his hopes on a peace treaty with the dead.

But if you want to change an ordinary person with a slightly normal brain, it is impossible to bring the country to such a point, it is as disgusting as ****. El couldn't imagine that such a brainless royal family would be willing to invest a huge amount of money in Thunder Fortress, is there really anything different about it?

"In fact, if you've read the history of the kingdom, you should know that our country was part of the Falcon Empire in the first place. When the Oakland Ancestor had not yet established a state, his fiefdom in the Falcon Empire was what is now Thunder Fortress or Camille Moor. Looking at the shocked expressions of the two men, De Lael smirked.

"In fact, you can guess the later history, when the first monarch opened up the land to the north, he discovered the current southern plains, and then gradually accumulated capital to establish his own country, which of course could not be recognized by the Falcon Empire. Problems like this, which involve power struggles that cannot be compromised, must eventually be resolved through war. ”

"The Falcon Empire has sent a crusading army to fight the forces of the Ancestors at the Thunder Fortress. In that war, multiple golden powerhouses fell on both sides, and the crusading army was eventually wiped out, and the product they left behind is what is now the Camille Wasteland. ”

De Lael reached out and grabbed a handful of dirt from the ground, handed it to the two men, and explained to El, "You see that we are now close to the borders of the Camille Heath, and the dirt here has turned from normal brownish-black to grayish, like burned ashes. This kind of land was originally unable to produce food, and compared to the rich land of the southern plains, it can almost be said that birds do not lay eggs. After thousands of years of change, this land has barely regained its ability to cultivate, but it is still a world of difference compared to what we have left behind. ”

"Wait a minute, the Falcon Empire you just mentioned...... It can't be the Falcon Empire, right?" asked Sima Ke, who was drinking with his head down, suddenly raised his head and asked in surprise.

"If you're referring to the organizer of the 'Falcon Warrior Recruitment', which is more famous in China in recent years, that's right. De Laere nodded.

"What do you mean, what do you mean? What warrior recruitment? Isn't that our enemy? How did you come to our side to recruit people?" El asked hurriedly after not understanding the dumb riddle between the two men.

"The Falcon Empire's territory is five times the size of the Oakland Kingdom, and it can be regarded as one of the strongest in the human civilization world, but they occasionally show signs of head cramps. De Laere snorted coldly and said:

Artemis II, the new female emperor of the Falcon Empire, is also known as the Hunter. She selects warriors throughout the empire and fights them in the name of the empire's traditional hunting conventions, with the winner rewarded with an unusually large prize. This kind of gladiatorial competition has been going on for fifteen or sixteen years, and many imperial lords have gone abroad through private channels to recruit strong people to participate in the competition, and the female emperor is also happy to see this, which further increases the reward of victory, making everyone crazy. ”

"So they're digging people to our side, but is there any connection to Thunder Fortress?" asked El, puzzled.

"Now this annual gladiatorial competition has escalated into a carnival for the whole of the empire, and countless people have signed up for the competition. However, the strength of these applicants is mixed, and in order to test their strength standards, it is necessary to add an additional trial task before the competition. De Laer's face changed, and he said: "And this trial mission is to join the Imperial Crusade Legion and attack the Thunder Fortress!"

There was silence......

Delare's words really startled El and Shimako, the two of them, one of whom was a turtle in the mountains and the other was the illegitimate son of a small family, who had never known anything about the outside of the Oakland Kingdom. For them, if it weren't for this plague and natural disaster, those distant things would naturally be meaningless.

It never occurred to them that even before the plague came, there would never be true peace in their kingdom. Far beyond the horizon, the ancient empire was able to organize a crusading army to attack the fortresses of his own country with just one event because of the emperor's personal preferences, and it has been going on for more than ten years now.

If you think about it carefully, I am afraid that this is not a matter of more than ten years, the Auckland Kingdom has been founded for thousands of years, and the Falcon Empire has never forgotten this history. So how many similar crusades have taken place in the past thousand years?

As long as you think about it, you will feel that it is a miracle that the Thunder Fortress has been able to hold up until now. And it seems not difficult to understand why the Oakland royal family invests one-fifth of the country's tax revenues and human and material resources here.

"Hearing you say that, I suddenly feel lost about the future. El took a sip of wine and said with a wry smile: "Originally, I thought that taking these troops over would make people look up to me. If you say so, wouldn't it be as ridiculous as a juggling clown?"

"You're going too far. De Lael crooked his mouth and smiled: "Back then, our Kemal family was not the same as a clown in front of the white lion, and every time he was pressed to the ground and beaten...... But looking at the entire southern aristocratic faction, we are the only ones who dare to persevere with you, and we have the ...... The former transcendent status. Therefore, if a man can't be cowardly, he just does ......"

"Who's cowardly, believe it or not, I'm fucking your sister!" El shook his hand and threw the roast in his face

(Jiangsu.com)